Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)

Aidek, Ahmad E., Ibrahim, Amir, Amr, Zuhair, Hutterer, Rainer, Kryštufek, Boris, Serra, Gianluca, Benda, Petr, Shkaky, Yesra, Barbanera, Filippo & Al-Sheikhly, Omar F., 2025, Checklist of Mammals of Syria, Zootaxa 5580 (1), pp. 1-130 : 103

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5580.1.1
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15121668
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scientific name	Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781)
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104. Humpback Whale, Megaptera novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) View in CoL

(IUCN Red List: LC)

Subspecies: M. n. novaeangliae (Borowski, 1781) .

Status: Occasional; stranded dead on the coast of Tartous in 2003 ( Saad 2004; Ibrahim 2008; Gonzalvo & Bearzi 2008; Saad 2008; Ibrahim 2011b), and a whale found swimming 3 km west of Tartous ( Saad et al. 2019) ( Fig. 113 View FIGURE 113 ).

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Chordata
Class	Mammalia
Order	Cetacea
Family	Balaenopteridae
Genus	Megaptera

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